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director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the c.i. what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be somebody who will be extremely aggressive and who will probably be comfortable. walking on the edge of the law you worked with him i did i worked with john brennan for many years and i know him pretty well. mr kaplan you yourself supported torture before you were against it what happened what changed your position well let me correct you on that and this is something that that i think most americans missed in my original n.b.c. interview i was trying to draw a
director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan...
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president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains for ex-los angeles cop christopher dorner. dorner is a suspect in the killing of three people, including a police officer. in a manifesto pe declared war on l.a. police officers and their families because he was fired from the force in 2008. a report commissioned by the family of joe paterno is absorbing the late coach of cover-up allegations in the jerry sandusky child sex abuse case. the report calls the findings of an earlier investigation conducted for penn state, quote, factually wrong, speculative and fundamentally flawed. in a separate letter to the school's former football plays his
president obama has just issued an emergency declaration for the state of connecticut. the entire northeast is starting to dig out from up to three feet of snow. at least nine deaths are blamed on the storm that pounded the region this weekend. power crews are working to restore electricity to more than 350,000 people. all major airports have resumed flights after more than 5,000 were canceled because of the blizzard. >>> the search has resumed in california's san bernadino mountains...
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news now from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are ahead for barack obama's nominee for cia head of his confirmation hearing in the senate john brennan is widely seen as not protecting u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around is kind of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad so after eight years of keeping it secret he's going to take on reports brennan's confirmation might broaden horizons for america's drone fleets. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionising we're. allowing us to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of the killing machin
news now from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are ahead for barack obama's nominee for cia head of his confirmation hearing in the senate john brennan is widely seen as not protecting u.s. drone strategy in an effort to avoid scrutiny around is kind of the see the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad so after eight years of keeping it secret he's going to take on reports brennan's...
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but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director of operations that bush had john brennan who is president obama's new designee to be the cia director and until what a week ago or so was the deputy national security adviser was under president bush the director of the national counterterrorism center and up to his eyeballs in torture policy so even though we changed presidents there was really no change of intelligence advisors at least not on counterterrorism john brennan you mentioned john brennan and i want to ask you about him the future head of the cia what kind of a cia chief is he going to be in your opinion i think he's going to be someb
but yet you go to prison because he talked about it why do you think this administration president obama who signed an executive order to stop torture at the very beginning of his first term why do you think he's protecting folks from the previous administration most people don't realize this but president obama has surrounded himself with the same intelligence advisors who advised president bush through most of the first term the cia had the same deputy director that bush had the same director...
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now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents that she says justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists and us the makers have been demanding the files for years the president had staunchly refused most recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for a cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the said his confirmation hearing on thursday that's all it is going to come reports his appointment might boyden horizons there because drone fleets. in the shadows know more drones are moving into the mainstream drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionizing were. allowing us to see and. from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technol
now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents that she says justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists and us the makers have been demanding the files for years the president had staunchly refused most recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for a cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the said his confirmation hearing on...
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corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. the cia veteran who revealed america's top program gets thirty months in jail but has spoken to r.t. about what led him to blow the whistle and why the government was so eager to get him behind bars the full interview next. the way. i. was able to build the most sophisticated. tim's mission to teach me the creation of. this is why you should. only. john kiriakou will with me today a former cia official who blew the whistle on the agency's torture practices after nine eleven john kiriakou served as the chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan mystically are always were totally praised at the agency for his role in the capture of abu zubaydah who back in two thousa
corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally probes in the name of national security bring up or not our team new york. the cia veteran who revealed america's top program gets thirty months in...
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now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents that she says justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years the president had staunchly refused most recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for a cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the set i think his confirmation hearing on thursday that's all it is going to take on reports his appointment might boyden horizons corner because it's. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream drone makers and the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability in their revolutionising. allowing us to see and. from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological
now you are going to an angry congress president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents that she says justifies the policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years the president had staunchly refused most recently however some senators hinted they would block his nominee for a cia chief from taking office john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the set i think his confirmation hearing on...
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considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president joe order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war there an intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a private because there is no risk to a
considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. lift you might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a...
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i'm with obama on this, i really am. i'm with obama. whether that makes me a con or a neo-con or whatever it is, think think they're wrong about waterboarding. but notice, answer, guantanamo is still open. i think obama has learned a thing or two. >> yeah, i wish he would learn a few more things and that is to get -- actually, i think it's mark's concerns about winning the hearts and minds of pakistanis. i don't think i'd spend a lot of time and effort on that and, you know, this is part of the reason i'm enthusiastically supporting the siequester. i think there's plenty we can cut from the defense department, including this pointless, endless rebuilding of afghanistan. it was one thing to go in and take out al qaeda and the taliban. what on earth are we doing over there? why do we care about the hearts or minds or building the schools? i mean, outside of osama bin laden going to afghanistan and tricking the taliban into this spectacular attack on america, in general the muslims in afghanistan like the ones in indonesiaia have not expor
i'm with obama on this, i really am. i'm with obama. whether that makes me a con or a neo-con or whatever it is, think think they're wrong about waterboarding. but notice, answer, guantanamo is still open. i think obama has learned a thing or two. >> yeah, i wish he would learn a few more things and that is to get -- actually, i think it's mark's concerns about winning the hearts and minds of pakistanis. i don't think i'd spend a lot of time and effort on that and, you know, this is part...
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other news now from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are ahead for barack obama's nominee for cia head of his confirmation hearing in the senate john brennan is widely seen as not protecting u.s. drone strategy but in an effort to avoid scrutiny around this time of the sea the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad so after years of keeping it secret if he's going to take on reports brennan's confirmation might broaden horizons for america's drone fleets. in the shadows know more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and keep you from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television counting the technological capabilities of
other news now from drone strikes to torture techniques tough questions are ahead for barack obama's nominee for cia head of his confirmation hearing in the senate john brennan is widely seen as not protecting u.s. drone strategy but in an effort to avoid scrutiny around this time of the sea the u.s. president has even agreed to hand over classified documents justifying the killing of american terror suspects abroad so after years of keeping it secret if he's going to take on reports brennan's...
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price considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations from the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. live a few might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if somebody a u.s. citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something. to united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed despite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. is said to expand its remote control warfare setting up new drone bases across the world the latest announcement a new facility in asia where obama has redefined war their intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in a quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under th
price considering the broad definition the obama administration gives us to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo on targeted assassinations from the u.s. justice department suggests the u.s. government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america if you extend the logic or studio logic being proud by the white house now you come. live a few might say that we're in danger of going over we're getting very close to zero thought crimes that if...
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and it was thought that john brennan the man picked by president obama to head the cia would be an easy confirmation but one senator is bound to block brennan from that post what rand paul is demanding coming up. and it's a battle of david and goliath proportions monsanto versus small farmers coming up a look at the biotech giants battle with small farmers over seeds. it's thursday february fourteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. we began zeroing in on a massive piece of equipment that could transform the way the military conducts its missions drones have made their way into the mainstream conversation as senators demand more transparency on the thus far secret drone campaign as of now we have a drone bases in places like pakistan and djibouti africa and as covert drone warfare becomes a critical foreign policy strategy we can expect even more of these bases to pop up but what if you didn't need to set up a base in these volatile countries well that could be the case of drone aircraft carriers were put to use you are looking at the navy's x. fort
and it was thought that john brennan the man picked by president obama to head the cia would be an easy confirmation but one senator is bound to block brennan from that post what rand paul is demanding coming up. and it's a battle of david and goliath proportions monsanto versus small farmers coming up a look at the biotech giants battle with small farmers over seeds. it's thursday february fourteenth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. we began zeroing in on a...
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drone attacks ordered by obama have spiked particularly in yemen, somalia, afghanistan, and notably pakistan where over 360 drone strikes over the nine years, 2004 to 2013, have killed over 3,000 people. this data is not classified. and not even secret. but it is troubling. so troubling that the u.n. has just decided to launch an investigation on the impacts of drone strikes on thousands of civilians. question. will the u.n. human rights council rule that drone use violates international law do you think, pat buchanan? >> i don't think they l. if they do, john, it doesn't make any difference. but we really ought to be concerned about these drones. they're a tremendously effective weapon. they save our pilots and the rest of it. but the collateral damage, the killing of civilians, the killing of children, the tremendous alienation they've increased all over this region has resulted in al-qaida frankly getting a tremendous number of new recruits. are we recruiting more enemies than we're killing? that's the key question when you look to see how al-qaida is no longer just in afghanistan but six
drone attacks ordered by obama have spiked particularly in yemen, somalia, afghanistan, and notably pakistan where over 360 drone strikes over the nine years, 2004 to 2013, have killed over 3,000 people. this data is not classified. and not even secret. but it is troubling. so troubling that the u.n. has just decided to launch an investigation on the impacts of drone strikes on thousands of civilians. question. will the u.n. human rights council rule that drone use violates international law do...
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we took part of these briefings of the obama administration team. we thought we had a program that was viable, limited, politically and legally realistic. one by way the entire intelligence committee have now been briefed into. to digress for a second, the major mistake we made, and i include myself in this, was in the early years of the program. the existence of the program, it was limited to the gang of 8. i think that was a mistake. by 2006 both had been briefed. we thought it was possible. we thought the obama administration could have continued the program in this limited form, at least maintained it as an option. it did not come to pass. i do not think any less realistically thought they would stick with it. we had not reviewed the executive order. guantanamo was out of our lane. this is a factual flaw in the film. they were saying this is not factually correct. we got a hold of the executive order again. all government will be confined to the techniques in army field manual. my friends and i have talked about this. i said not that you ask, th
we took part of these briefings of the obama administration team. we thought we had a program that was viable, limited, politically and legally realistic. one by way the entire intelligence committee have now been briefed into. to digress for a second, the major mistake we made, and i include myself in this, was in the early years of the program. the existence of the program, it was limited to the gang of 8. i think that was a mistake. by 2006 both had been briefed. we thought it was possible....
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president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says that justify his policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years but the president has staunchly refused to strike but risen do some senators had hinted they would block his nominee for cia chief from told loftus john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing on thursday and as artie's damage can his confirmation could only broaden the horizon america's role. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing work. by allowing us to see and . from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television carrying the techno. logical capabilities of the killing
president barack obama has agreed to hand over classified documents which he says that justify his policy of ordering targeted killings of suspected terrorists u.s. lawmakers have been demanding the files for years but the president has staunchly refused to strike but risen do some senators had hinted they would block his nominee for cia chief from told loftus john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing on thursday and as artie's damage...
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president barack obama will handle of a classified documents that justify his use of trying to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists this comes as a john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing as head office cia arches gammage again takes a look at why washington's drug policy stretches far beyond the country's boundaries. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television how to the technological capabilities of the killing machine from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individuals since two thousand and one using remot
president barack obama will handle of a classified documents that justify his use of trying to carry out targeted killings of suspected terrorists this comes as a john brennan the man behind the u.s. drone program is to face the senate at his confirmation hearing as head office cia arches gammage again takes a look at why washington's drug policy stretches far beyond the country's boundaries. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military...
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and just because he happens to be nobel peace prize winner barack obama most americans who haven't paid much attention have just bought iraq obama because i think it's a question of education here domestically execute people need to be informed that hollywood have a role to play i think hollywood had a role to play i think that zero dark thirty for example did a grave disservice to counterterrorism zero dark thirty perpetuates this grand lie that torture led to the. the killing of osama bin laden it's just simply not true myths often become history and one comedian here said movies it was about zero dark thirty about the way it's serious movies is where americans learned their history it's true what myths what other myths do you see being perpetuated now related to the war on terror i think one of the great myths and i chuckle to myself because it always seemed so ridiculous to me was president bush's statement that they hate us because we love freedom. i know al-qaeda i've captured al qaeda fighters i've had conversations sitting across the table like i am with you with al qaeda leader
and just because he happens to be nobel peace prize winner barack obama most americans who haven't paid much attention have just bought iraq obama because i think it's a question of education here domestically execute people need to be informed that hollywood have a role to play i think hollywood had a role to play i think that zero dark thirty for example did a grave disservice to counterterrorism zero dark thirty perpetuates this grand lie that torture led to the. the killing of osama bin...
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sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as we understand it americans have been killed overseas with these drones without any kind of judicial process and the same kind of thing can happen it appears here in the united states why is it illegal for the government to wiretap somebody in the united states without a court warrant but we don't know can a drone be used against them to kill them well actually we know that it could be done overseas so why couldn't it be done here at home i would say it's indeed a very slippery slope and a very dangerous and scary slope ok chris ship on your back to. the slippery slope . no i mean there certainly
sure i mean the fact that under the obama administration there have been three americans including a sixteen year old boy bill born in denver who have been killed by u.s. drones overseas with no acknowledge and knowledge meant by the united states never any indictment i don't think a sixteen year old is a high level leader of al qaeda and then the congress people have been asking will controls be used to kill people here in the united states and they have never so far gotten a no so as far as...
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get ourselves in a lot of trouble but you know there's also an economic thing according to president obama an economic recovery has begun but america cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and the growing many can barely make it where we sell planes. guns rockets missiles dole these countries all over the world so you know that well that's one of our biggest industries it's our biggest export defense america spends as much money on military security intelligence as the rest of the world combined you know you're dealing with a big you know economic reality you know the idea that we would cut any money to the defense budget is like unbelievable let's get a few more planes let's buy a few more ships for what you know we're going broke doing this and there's like you know it's like what eisenhower warned you know the military industrial complex watch out it just grows and grows and grows and nobody can seem to stop it barack obama has been recently sworn in for his second term but you don't seem to be very happy with his achievements oh no i think obama's trying to change some of thi
get ourselves in a lot of trouble but you know there's also an economic thing according to president obama an economic recovery has begun but america cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and the growing many can barely make it where we sell planes. guns rockets missiles dole these countries all over the world so you know that well that's one of our biggest industries it's our biggest export defense america spends as much money on military security intelligence as the rest of the...
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but what was obama thinking. but what was obama thinking with intelligence issues that we would have to grapple with. i could not think of a better scenario than having david petraeus at the cia. that's not what he had in mind in 1947. he did not want to put in the hands of military policymakers. what the cia was created for was to challenge military intelligence. the cia has done its job correctly and that is what they have done on things such as arms control or vietnam, for that matter. what needs to be done, and let me just check the time to, we don't have a lot of time. let me go over to areas very quickly. the first deals with the defense budget and the other that deals with the need to militarize the entire national security system. there is a chapter in the book and i'm not going to get into the specifics of the reduction that i could argue that you could take a trillion dollars very easily and have a defense budget over the next 10 years and you would still have the same level of spending in 2007. we spen
but what was obama thinking. but what was obama thinking with intelligence issues that we would have to grapple with. i could not think of a better scenario than having david petraeus at the cia. that's not what he had in mind in 1947. he did not want to put in the hands of military policymakers. what the cia was created for was to challenge military intelligence. the cia has done its job correctly and that is what they have done on things such as arms control or vietnam, for that matter. what...
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a champion over drone strikes on barack obama's choice to head the cia john brennan faced his senate confirmation hearing this week there was tension in the room as the session got on the way but it wasn't the lawmakers who were the most vocal from the onset jason catcalls erupted from the audience to judge the protests to be moved lawmakers then prodded brennan on torture cia shortcomings and targeted executions seemingly reluctant to challenge his own says given brennan is a performance at the senate on and off the current travel says his confirmation could set a troubling precedent. this is a complete our constitutional rights. due process of those laws and equal protection of the law and here within ministration is doing here is they're usurping the constitutional right not to the maccan citizens and saying that we can be judged jury and executioner we can show american citizens abroad without them having. court we can say they are jurors and we can go there and the dangerous is when you look at ministration says we can determine who the jurors then that means go in the room or a
a champion over drone strikes on barack obama's choice to head the cia john brennan faced his senate confirmation hearing this week there was tension in the room as the session got on the way but it wasn't the lawmakers who were the most vocal from the onset jason catcalls erupted from the audience to judge the protests to be moved lawmakers then prodded brennan on torture cia shortcomings and targeted executions seemingly reluctant to challenge his own says given brennan is a performance at...
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senate hearings get under way for president obama's controversial pick to be the next new chief of the cia already the sessions have been interrupted due to protests by activists who are furious that the man behind america's infamous drone program could be to become the head of the agency. plus the turmoil in tunisia intensifies fresh clashes between anti-government protesters and police are accompanied by political chaos with the ruling islam is defying the prime minister's decision to reshuffle the government. thanks for tuning in world news live from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and of course you're watching our team well on to our top story it's now exactly one year until the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games right here in russia a special giant clocks have been installed in the country's largest cities and they've begun the countdown for the event which will be held in the black sea resort city of sochi now of course when we're talking about sochi the main celebrations to mark the countdown have taken place in the city itself now rounding off wit
senate hearings get under way for president obama's controversial pick to be the next new chief of the cia already the sessions have been interrupted due to protests by activists who are furious that the man behind america's infamous drone program could be to become the head of the agency. plus the turmoil in tunisia intensifies fresh clashes between anti-government protesters and police are accompanied by political chaos with the ruling islam is defying the prime minister's decision to...
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where has the obama administration been on this? is a lot of the cases are before 2008. has anything changed? >> the terrorism operations the developed under george w. bush, and they have basically continued unabated under president obama. and i think one of the extraordinary things is if you look at the 2012 presidential election, one of the areas was national security and foreign policy, the glass jar of democratic candidates and what he is seen as a doubling down on the police. eric holder can to san francisco for a meeting that was put on and he was questioned specifically about the sting operations and he insisted that the these are a legitimate law enforcement tool for binding terrorists. but we've also seen under obama and by the press to be critical of this is an increasing of surveillance. the amount of warrantless wiretaps, warrantless electronic surveillance. the fbi when it believes someone might has 72 hours looking through e-mail and trash to go through any kind of digital remnants he might leave behind looking for evi
where has the obama administration been on this? is a lot of the cases are before 2008. has anything changed? >> the terrorism operations the developed under george w. bush, and they have basically continued unabated under president obama. and i think one of the extraordinary things is if you look at the 2012 presidential election, one of the areas was national security and foreign policy, the glass jar of democratic candidates and what he is seen as a doubling down on the police. eric...
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senate hearings are underway for president obama's controversial pick to be the new chief of the cia already been interrupted due to protests by activists angry behind . america's infamous drone program it could be head of the agency. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turn into violent clashes with police the ruling bloc the prime minister's plan to form a coalition government. and the countdown to the next winter olympics begins its exactly one year until russia first ever winter games that promise to become the most unique and the most expensive in history. but not everyone is in the mood russia's president lashes out over spending a key figure behind the two thousand and fourteen games. in broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us. now from drone strikes to torture techniques barack obama's nominee for head of the cia is facing tough questions in the senate confirmation hearing the session is underway again after it was disrupted by protestors angry at john brennan's role in america's drone program brennan
senate hearings are underway for president obama's controversial pick to be the new chief of the cia already been interrupted due to protests by activists angry behind . america's infamous drone program it could be head of the agency. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turn into violent clashes with police the ruling bloc the prime minister's plan to form a coalition government. and the countdown to the next winter olympics begins its exactly one year until russia first ever...
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right so he was considered as the man for the job by president obama. in two thousand and nine when an obama nominated him was was thinking about nominating him for the same position but obama faced scrutiny because he was at the same time talking about closing guantanamo bay you know banning torture he criticized the bush administration's war on terror policies and so it seemed too much of a contradiction to put these two things right next to each other but now we've had four years of the obama administration's ruthless drone war which has replaced the bush administration's detention programs and torture programs and so it doesn't seem like that much of a contradiction now brennan and george tenet and george bush and president obama seem all on the same pile and you know you started to get at this point earlier but i want to talk a little bit about these actual programs that the u.s. government has been using for example the drone strikes when you look at their use i mean some critics have said that this in fact creates more terrorism because people ar
right so he was considered as the man for the job by president obama. in two thousand and nine when an obama nominated him was was thinking about nominating him for the same position but obama faced scrutiny because he was at the same time talking about closing guantanamo bay you know banning torture he criticized the bush administration's war on terror policies and so it seemed too much of a contradiction to put these two things right next to each other but now we've had four years of the...
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senate hearings for president obama's pick to be the new chief of the cia have wrapped up that's after interruptions by protesters over his controversial pardon america's drone program. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turn into violent clashes with police as the ruling is the block of the prime minister's plan to form a close coalition government. and the countdown to the next winter olympics begins its exactly one year until russia hold its first ever winter games that promises to become the most unique and most expensive in history. but not everyone is any celebrate torrie mood russia's president overspending and sacks a key figure behind the two thousand and fourteen games. providing top news in commentary twenty four hours a day this is our team live from moscow. now from drone strikes to torture techniques brought obama's nominee for the head of the cia has faced what was supposed to be tough questions in the senate confirmation hearings but many on capitol hill already say the architect of america's drone wars was handled with kid gloves by the committee many
senate hearings for president obama's pick to be the new chief of the cia have wrapped up that's after interruptions by protesters over his controversial pardon america's drone program. political chaos in tunisia anti-government protests turn into violent clashes with police as the ruling is the block of the prime minister's plan to form a close coalition government. and the countdown to the next winter olympics begins its exactly one year until russia hold its first ever winter games that...
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to cross-talk obama and his drones i'm joined by no sharkey in london he is a professor of artificial intelligence and robots at the university of sheffield and chairman of the international committee for robot arms control in charlottesville we have david swanson he is an author and radio host who works for roots action dot org all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know we've been told that obama's drone policy is that i will quote legal ethical and why do you agree with that because that's a storage area to store in. no. i think that is quite extraordinary i think i don't think that he can kill anybody anywhere at any time either i think that was a slight exaggeration but he can kill anybody who is classified as being al-qaeda or any associated force so i don't think he would come and kill file the high if i targeted somebody in al-qaeda i could be called an associate ok i don't think it is an exaggeration is true yes that's true ok david if that is true but it would have to have some sort of motivat
to cross-talk obama and his drones i'm joined by no sharkey in london he is a professor of artificial intelligence and robots at the university of sheffield and chairman of the international committee for robot arms control in charlottesville we have david swanson he is an author and radio host who works for roots action dot org all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know we've been told that obama's drone policy...
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obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people ok i sense that they don't want to catch these people they want to kill them there's little there's no trial we don't have to show any proof no evidence it's very cynical you know my suspicion from the moment that they announced you know they leaked to the chosen classified information that they'd killed osama bin laden i suspected that the order had been to kill not to capture and we later learned it became quite clear that that in fact had been the order and that as far as we know that is likely the order in many such cases we have these raids happening every night they don't all involve osama bin laden and the thinking that we're hearing in the u.s. media and out of the obama administration is that it is more legal to kill people then it is to capture them and torture them as if as if the captives must be tortured as if these are options and so drones are an improvement on torture drone
obama's drone policy. ok david if i go back to you you know part of the memo talks about the inability to catch people ok i sense that they don't want to catch these people they want to kill them there's little there's no trial we don't have to show any proof no evidence it's very cynical you know my suspicion from the moment that they announced you know they leaked to the chosen classified information that they'd killed osama bin laden i suspected that the order had been to kill not to capture...
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tonight monday of president obama's inauguration, the first day president obama outlined this wide ranging liberal agenda for his second term, that same day there was a drone strike in yemen. and that drone strike on inauguration day followed drone strikes in yemen on both days of the weekend that preceded inauguration day. so we had drone strikes on saturday and on sunday and on monday, the monday the president was sworn in. it doesn't really make the news. one of the most unusual things about drone strikes for us as citizens in a country that does this is that for so long our country would not admit that we did them, even when we all knew that we did. that was the case. that did not change officially until april of last year. april 2012. and the person the administration put forth to do that, to admit that policy for the first time publicly was john brennan. >> so let me say it as simply as i can. yes, in full accordance with the law and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the united states and to save american lives, the united states government conducts targeted strikes against sp
tonight monday of president obama's inauguration, the first day president obama outlined this wide ranging liberal agenda for his second term, that same day there was a drone strike in yemen. and that drone strike on inauguration day followed drone strikes in yemen on both days of the weekend that preceded inauguration day. so we had drone strikes on saturday and on sunday and on monday, the monday the president was sworn in. it doesn't really make the news. one of the most unusual things about...
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to cross-talk obama and his drones i'm joined by no sharkey in london he is a professor of artificial intelligence and robots at the university of sheffield and chairman of the international committee for robot arms control in charlottesville we have david swanson he is an author and radio host who works for roots action dot org all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know we've been told that obama's drone policy is i will quote legal ethical and why do you agree with that because it's stored in area to store in the. no. i think that is quite extraordinary i think i don't think that he can kill anybody anywhere at any time either i think that was a slight exaggeration but he can kill anybody who is classified as being al-qaeda or any associated force so i don't think he would come and kill the high if i targeted somebody in al-qaeda i could be called an associate ok i don't think it is an exaggeration is true yes that's true ok david if that is true but it would have to have some sort of motivation but
to cross-talk obama and his drones i'm joined by no sharkey in london he is a professor of artificial intelligence and robots at the university of sheffield and chairman of the international committee for robot arms control in charlottesville we have david swanson he is an author and radio host who works for roots action dot org all right gentlemen crosstalk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it you know we've been told that obama's drone policy...